A man who injected himself with snake venom helped create an antivenom that can protect mice from venomous snakes.

Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

Thanks to the efforts of a "hyperimmune" man who injected himself with snake venom a staggering 856 times over nearly two decades, U.S. scientists have been able to develop an "antivenom cocktail ...

Scientists identified broadly neutralizing antitoxin antibodies in blood from snake venom-exposed hyperimmune donor for ...

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most ...

Tom Friede slowly increased the amount of venom he was exposed to over a 18-year period to try to build up tolerance. Credit: AP A man in Wisconsin has helped create a groundbreaking snake ...

Glanville’s diamond was Tim Friede, a self-taught snake expert based in California who exposed himself to the venom of snakes over ... the other major group of venomous snakes that includes ...

By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes ...

Instead of building a new antivenom from scratch, a group of researchers turned to someone with a head start. Friede has spent 18 years injecting himself with increasingly lethal doses of snake venom ...